This weekend, played BJ for 23 hours from Friday through Sunday and some Baccarat this afternoon for about 2 hours. The BJ game was mostly choppy as usual. Played downtown Vegas in some very bad games like 2D H17 no DAS and some 6D shoe. The only decent game I guess was the 1D H17 with doubling on first two cards. During this time, have encountered one long losing streak of 13, the rest only choppy hands on top of each other at all times. Losing couple, winning some, then again losing, wining, losing, winning .. etc. A perfect game for me. Im not really surprised at all because thats the way this game goes.

At Baccarat I played both ways (player and banker) together. People were telling me that each bet cancels out each other and make no sense to play them both. Well, they didnt know what was going on with my betting. I made money on both betting spots, about $150 per shoe. Still I like BJ as a game but made money more efficiently at baccarat.

Playing your method as you defined it, how can you have a maximum bet of $55 and a losing streak of thirteen?

By my math......If you lose thirteen in a row, your next bet will be $215, not $55, and you will be down $975, not $275.

Please explain the discrepency.

Grifter[/quote]Grifter, You really have disappointed me this time.I will not go in any more details of how to set the self adjusting betting mechanism but for clarification of 13 losing streak here you have the house edge to be 12.5% and I pull it to even.Playing BJ at the $5 minimum bet. Never betting zero or less then table minimum.

PS: just for you Grifter: Run a simulation of ONE million or more hands for a game like 2D, H17, DAS, Set the bankroll from the start to be -$1000. Bet 1.5% of the hole anytime the bankroll is negative and bet $1 when and if your bank gets into positive during the simulation. At the end of the sim, add $1000 back to your bankroll.

Please post the stats and the final result. If you lose during the sim I will let you call me any name. I will let you call me that I'm the biggest fuck con on earth. I will even kiss your ass in public. But you have to be honest and post the real stats results. :!: I can guarantee you that you ALWAYS will make money. Always :!: Play basic at all time.

I'm telling you why you win. Because in a million rounds if you play perfect basic flat betting you will lose at a rate of about -0.5%. The reserch shows that in order to offset the game one has to bet 2xhouse_edge from the hole. If you bet anything above 1% from the hole you will break even or make money. It depends how much above 2xhouse_edge from the hole you bet.

If the game has a -0.6% against you for flat betting and if you bet 1.5% from the hole you will break even. If you bet 2% of the hole you will make some $ over one million or even over 10 millions hands.

In real life, you assume that the house will have in the sort run a 10% or 12% edge over you. Bet double that percentage from your hole. You will allways make money this way.

If you don't post the results then I will post the final stats and the program for people to see how is done. And, if you are wrong and I'm right then I want you to appologize on this board. :twisted:

Alex, when you were at the 275 level in BJ(hole), would you have, atsome point above 275, taken a loss and return to 100? Just one of thepossibilities that I'm thinking about.

Ray

Ray,I was playing downtown at $5 minimum. So, my starting hole was -25 and betting 20% of the hole at all times until I reached again table minimum and reset the hole to -$25 again.

#1) The bets are: 5,6,7.5, 9,11,13,15,18,22,27,33,38,46,55,66,80,96You don't even have to reset the hole. Just play normal BJ or whatever and go up and down the scale. When you lose a hand you advance to the next bet up the scale when you win a hand you come down one step until you reach the table minimum again. Every time you are back to table minimum you made money for the run. This is the equivalent of having a hole set at 25 from the start, betting 20% of that hole, and set it again at 25 when you reach table minimum. To avoid confusion, just play the normal way you usually do but bet the way I told you. That schedule covers for a assumed house edge of 10%. Anytime the house has less then 10%, you are making big money.

Off course you can assume that the house could have a 16.5% over you and in that situation you would have to use a different betting schedule. The one that bets 33% of the hole.

#2) For $5 minimum you would bet: 8.5, 11.5, 15, 20, 26.5, 36, 48, 64, 85, 114, 152, 202, 270, 360. This will make you a ton of money as long as the house edge doesnt go over 16.5% against you.

Have you played ever a BJ session when you lost more then 16.5% of the total action while flat betting :?: Like losing 58.25% and winning 41.75% This includes the double downs and all the BJ, like a double down is +2 or 2 and a single BJ is 1.5I personally never in my life have encountered a playing weekend of over 1000 hands when the house had a 16.5% edge over me.

I usually use the $5 minimum and assume a 10% edge against me at all times. This scheme is good at BJ for about $50 per hour profit with a $20 to $25 average bet.

The #2 is good for about $80 per hour profit but require more action with an average bet of about $40.

If you play in a game that comes out to be 49W/51L that is 2% against you but you assumed in the beginning that could be 10% or 16.5% against and you bet accordingly, will make a killing in that game.

Always!

PS: Never take a loss. Go up and down the scale and when you reach table minimum again you are in PROFIT 100%

Alex, I'm going there tomorrow. Are there any decent 2D games downtown? Looking for $10 min., S17, DAS, RSA, LSR, etc. If not, I'll stick with Mandalay Bay and Bellagio.

No S17, LSR or RSA downtown on 2D. The only S17 for 2D is at Stardust from $10 to $2000 and Caesar's that has S17 and LSR too but for $100 minimum. Also, Bellagio without surrender and Mandalay Bay with H17 but with surrender. Mirage, TI and some other clubs have 2D too but no surrender and all are H17. Those are the games. But nothing for minimum of $10 on the Strip.

Don't you worry about 2D. Why not playing 6D, S17, DAS, RSA, LSR. Or play Single deck downtown for $5 to $1000 with H17 double on the first two cards and BJ pays 3:2

Alex, a legit question.... about how many hands did you split and/or double... and is the # of hands shown including the splits and/or doubles?

Yes, the double counts as +2 if you win or -2 if you lose. The BJ counts as 1.5 always. The split counts as +2 if you win both or -2 if you lose them both, or 0 if you win one and lose the other, or -1 if you lose one and push the second one or +1 is you win one and push the other.

Plus you add up all of the single wins and single losses. Together you should come close to the house edge for flat betting over the long run. Now, during short run the house can get you between +/- 5% like 47.5W vs. 52.5L or sometimes like +/- 10% with rare spectacular outcomes of +/- 16.5%

In very few instances over the long run you will see 3 standard deviations related to a single hour of play. That would be something like +/- 33% but never had the extravagance to be part of that ever in my entire BJ career. The most I ever encountered in real time play was probably +/15% for a short period of time. Most of time the edge fluctuates back and forth around +/- 5% and over the long run it stabilize itself to about 0.50% for the house.

That house edge is related to the number of winning or losing bets.If you flat bet you will LOSE :!:

Well, in real live play you cannot keep track of the number of splits or doubling. Only the hours, profit and based on the average bet you can figure the total action. From there you get your return in percentage. You can also remember the deepest hole and the max bet during the trip.

But how many times you split or double down is almost impossible to approximate. If I won money I suspect that I got about the normal rate of doubles and BJs per hour.

If you don't post the results then I will post the final stats and the program for people to see how is done. And, if you are wrong and I'm right then I want you to appologize on this board. :twisted:

Alex - Get real, and knock off the kid's stuff.....You are telling me to run a million hand sim, and you are telling me that if I don't you will run yet another one of your method and I have to apologize for your results...Sure, Alex, when pigs fly.

I don't even have a clue where you are coming from!.....I have never posted one way or the other about your sims. It was your reporting about supposed 'real' play that raised my original question.

I posted an open challange to you last week which you totally sidestepped, so here it is again:

No one said all of your data was bogus (a.k.a.-fraudulent). What I took exception to (and still do) and inferred might be bogus is your post in which you stated you had played 10,000 hands of your method in real play and your maximum bet was $100, and that had only happened once.

Without even testing any hands, common sense and experience will tell you this is almost impossible with your DAlembert derivative, but I tested 80+ shoes for you anyway (and that is hardly taking the easy way out).

In just those 1,300+ hands, I exceeded a $100 bet ten times!!!.......and reached a maximum bet of $630 (and down $3,150) in one session; AND reached a maximum bet of $1,600 (and down $8,100) in the worst session.

Based on those test hands (using one of your own resources) one can only come to the following conclusions about your post. 1. The results you posted are bogus (a.k.a.  fraudulent) ..or, 2. You havent actually played 10,000 hands in real play, .or, 3. I am full of ..beans. And if that is the case, you show me 10,000 consecutive hands of real play or hand dealt testing where you only reach a maximum bet of $100 one time; and I will immediately post an apology to you on this board!

Show me those 10,000 consecutive hands of real play (using the starting bet of $20 that you were promoting last week...that too has apparently changed), and you will get your apology if I am wrong.

"But how many times you split or double down is almost impossible to approximate. If I won money I suspect that I got about the normal rate of doubles and BJs per hour."

And how often is that using YOUR system? I must presume you have simulated it , and there is an answer based upon those sims. I know what text-book Basic Strategy indicates, but after reading some of the persuasive prose with your name on it, I can tell you don't play text-book Basic, and Basic Strategy expectations are NOT correct for your game.

"But how many times you split or double down is almost impossible to approximate. If I won money I suspect that I got about the normal rate of doubles and BJs per hour."

And how often is that using YOUR system? I must presume you have simulated it , and there is an answer based upon those sims. I know what text-book Basic Strategy indicates, but after reading some of the persuasive prose with your name on it, I can tell you don't play text-book Basic, and Basic Strategy expectations are NOT correct for your game.

Well, I don't double down on A2, A3, A4, A5, A8, A9. Also 11 vs. T or A has got to be on very positive counts for me to double. Never split TT

This already seems like a pretty lengthy list to me! How in the world do you keep track of every hand played? Do you play so many hands then quit and go right it down somewhere and then sit down again? I usually just keep track of how many hours I played and then estimate about how many hands I might have played!

Also, it seems that you would have to play with a bunch of one dollar chips when betting with your method, this seems like it would bring alot of attention when you start your bet at $20, do you tell the dealer to give you a boatload of ones?

I don't think anyone on this board cares if you play your system, I think people like Grifter though are trying to protect the newbies from thinking your method is actually a good one. Good job Grif, keep em' honest for us!

What are your plays for 6-6 vs. 2 or 3, and 9-9 vs. 2, I don't think those are played Basic either, since you don't double on A2 thru A5. I figure theres a time to surrender 8-8 vs. 10-value from your previous posts. I'll also guess that you don't split 4's against 5 or 6. If most or all of these are correctly presumed, there might be some creedence in what you're doing.

This already seems like a pretty lengthy list to me! How in the world do you keep track of every hand played? Do you play so many hands then quit and go right it down somewhere and then sit down again? I usually just keep track of how many hours I played and then estimate about how many hands I might have played!

Also, it seems that you would have to play with a bunch of one dollar chips when betting with your method, this seems like it would bring alot of attention when you start your bet at $20, do you tell the dealer to give you a boatload of ones?

I don't think anyone on this board cares if you play your system, I think people like Grifter though are trying to protect the newbies from thinking your method is actually a good one. Good job Grif, keep em' honest for us!

Why is so complicate for you to understand?I keep track of number of hours and then x 80 for total number hands. Profit and $/hour is easy. Action is number of hands x average bet. $_edge is profit/actionunit is easy to know what is.average bet is from simulations.max bet I just remember what was.max hole I is from memory.

What are your plays for 6-6 vs. 2 or 3, and 9-9 vs. 2, I don't think those are played Basic either, since you don't double on A2 thru A5. I figure theres a time to surrender 8-8 vs. 10-value from your previous posts. I'll also guess that you don't split 4's against 5 or 6. If most or all of these are correctly presumed, there might be some creedence in what you're doing.

Well, 6-6 vs. 2 or 3 I never split. 9-9 vs. 2 or 3 the count has got to be very strong for me to split. 9 vs. 2 or 3 is a double only on strong counts.Split 4-4 vs. 5 or 6 only if double after split and the count has got to be on positive side. The 8-8 vs. T is surrender.

Single deck downtown at LVC would only see one round per deck if there were 5 or 6 players at the table. If there were 4 players, you were able to see two rounds. Lots and lots of suffles. At the El Cortez they went very deep into the single deck. Always saw two rounds sometimes 3 with 3 to 4 players at the table.

Alex... that is what I was figuring. I've been playing CVBJ with a progression, and found some rather unusual results. When I tried it with 2 "average" players using basic, I keep getting killed. They essentially do not DD and rarely split A's & 8's. No other pairs arae split, and they stand on Soft 17. They have one quirk, that when receiving a small card and Ace for the hand. In this situation if a 9 or 10-value is drawn, they hit again REGARDLESS of the dealer's up-card. Since their play is so "bad" I decided to use the 'close quarters' decisions from some 40 years ago to "acid-test" the progression. Misery loving bad company, I figured to lose my shirt out of a shoe.... NOT !

My comparison indicates I'm making 4.5% to 5% from a shoe, and 1.7% to 2% from a CSM for the CQ strategy. USING BASIC, -0.5% and -6%, and its UGLY. Note the large losses associated with a CSM shuffle every round. Grifter has experience large losses using basic also with this progression. Why the close quarters strategy works is beyond me. But after reading your posts and answering my questions of late, I see you have results similar to this simulation. I will be running simulations of heads-up for both CQ and BS. I have to manually run these as the game, so the few thousand hands needed for each takes a while.

Its not all that great a statement to make as only about 3500 hands of each simulation have been run, thats not a long-run by any stretch. But I'm nearly floored by the abstractness of the two strategies. One's a definate winner the other struggles to lose.